Twinning Cities
REEEP is undertaking a Cities Twinning Project with the Global Center for Community Sustainability (GEC). The project will help REEEP to develop and implement its Twinning Strategy.
Twinning Cities
Countries worldwide are experiencing rapid urbanisation. Today, one billion people live in inadequate housing; one and half billion breathe polluted air, and 600,000 people die annually from indoor pollution.
GEC is developing and expanding the emerging Global Energy Network (GEN) for Sustainable Communities. This expansion will help GEN to expand its network of affiliated centres to accelerate and advance the growth of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency technologies in residential, commercial, industrial and municipal developments to improve local health, welfare and economical problems.
GEC, together with REEEP, is implementing a project to demonstrate how creative public-private partnerships can use research, training and demonstrations to accelerate the use of these technologies to mitigate greenhouse gas and environmental problems, and optimise the efficiency of certain technologies and energy resources as the demand for energy increases with rapid urbanisation.
The GEN will collect new methods for the advance; synergy; and mutual support of organisations interested in accelerate and advance the growth of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency technologies in urban areas. GEN will then use this information to develop a network which will foster innovation in community energy design and planning, which includes the use of energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies within advanced, integrated, community-scale energy systems.
Currently, the GEN consists of affiliated organisations in the United States, China and Israel. Additional affiliates are in the early stages of development in Japan and Mexico. Discussions are underway with prospective affiliates in Australia, Canada, India, Germany, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Thailand and the United Kingdom. During its start-up phase, the GEN is being coordinated by the U.S. National Energy Center for Sustainable Communities (NECSC), formerly known as the Global Energy Center.
To learn more, please visit: www.globalenergynetwork.org and www.necsc.us/gen.php
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